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One idea, traced across chapters — the verses that build it, in order, with a line on what each one adds.
Desire, and what it costs
Kāma — wanting
How the Gita follows a small wanting all the way to an unfree life.
What action cannot touch
Ātman — the self
The verses on the part of you that outcomes never reach.
Steadiness under pressure
Samatva — evenness
Six verses on the trained calm the Gita is willing to call yoga.
Your own work, done badly
Svadharma
The Gita's case for your own imperfect duty over someone else's polished one.
The senses and the mind
Indriya · manas · buddhi
The Gita's working model of why self-control is hard and where the leverage sits.
Three ways to hold a life
The three guṇas
Sattva, rajas, tamas — the Gita sorts action, knowledge and steadiness by which one is running.